Once again, the statistic risks going unnoticed.
Like every quarter, INSEE publishes, at the same time as unemployment figures, the proportion of young people neither in employment nor in training.
The latter, better known as “NEET”, an acronym for “Not in Education, Employment or Training” represent 12.5% of 15-29 year olds at the end of the year 2023, up 0.2 points over the period.
The level is the same as a year earlier and exceeds the rate recorded at the end of 2019 by 0.3 points. The trend is surprising as the last five years have been particularly beneficial for the rest of the French labor market. .
The country has in fact seen the unemployment rate fall by almost 1% and the creation of hundreds of thousands of jobs.
A discrepancy which shows the difficulty of Paris in resolving the problem.
Worse,
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French NEETs are characterized by an over-representation of young people experiencing long-term unemployment…
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